ort of the Alienists 192

Chapter XVI. Finding of the Alienists 195

Chapter XVII. Schrank Describes Shooting 202

Chapter XVIII. Conclusion of Commission 208

Chapter XIX. Schrank Discusses Visions 210

Chapter XX. Schrank's Defense 213

Chapter XXI. Schrank's Unwritten Laws 224

Chapter XXII. Unusual Court Precedent 235

PREFACE.

At 8:10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 14, 1912, a shot was fired the
echo of which swept around the entire world in thirty minutes.

An insane man attempted to end the life of the only living ex-president
of the United States and the best known American.

The bullet failed of its mission.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt, carrying the leaden missile intended as a
pellet of death in his right side, has recovered. He is spared for many
more years of active service for his country.

John Flammang Schrank, the mad man who fired the shot, is in the
Northern Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh, Wis., pronounced by a
commission of five alienists a paranoiac. If he recovers he will face
trial for assault with intent to kill.

This little book presents an accurate story of the attempt upon the
life of the ex-president. The aim of those who present it is that,
being an accurate narrative, it shall be a contribution to the history
of the United States.

This book is written, compiled and edited by Henry F. Cochems, Chairman
of the national speakers' bureau of the Progressive party during the
1912 campaign, and who was with Col. Roosevelt in the automobile when
the ex-president was shot, Wheeler P. Bloodgood, Wisconsin
representative of the National Progressive committee, and Oliver E.
Remey, city editor of the Milwaukee Free Press, who necessarily
followed all incidents of the shooting closely.

The story told is an historical narrative in the preparation of which
accuracy never has been lost sight of.

CHRONOLOGY.

October 14, 1912--At 8:10 o'clock P.M., John Flammang Schrank, of New
York, a paranoiac, shoots ex-President Theodore Roosevelt in the right
side with a 38-caliber bullet as the ex-President is standing in an
automobile in front of Hotel Gilpatrick, Milwaukee. Schrank is
immediately arrested, after a struggle to recover the revolver and
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